We often get caught up in our own reactions and forget the vulnerability of the person in front of us.

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

We find greater lightness & ease in our lives as we increasingly care for ourselves & other beings.

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.

Once someone appears to us primarily as an object, kindness has no place to root.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patternsof fear & jealousy.

Every man is capable of doing good to another, but to contribute to the happiness of an entire society is to become akin to the gods

Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.

Most women have low standards. All they strive for is a highly paid man.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.

Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences.

The first law of economics is that when the price goes up, consumption comes down. This is a divine law.

We live through sound and light—through our technologies.

I never feel any aggravation from the public.

As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you'll pay for what you used to get for free.

Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.